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Watched it today. Joker eerily reminds me of Kawarino from Precure 5.
Seems totally unhurtable even when they ganged up on him. Next week looks like it's going to be more hand to hand combat as Miyuki and friends try to make a comeback.

This week felt very much like part two of a trilogy. It's more about getting somewhere than doing anything in and of itself. Miyuki and friends didn't do much beyond having a moment of self-doubt (and spawning the Despair Yayoi meme) and realizing they're going to need to bring their A Game against Joker - more on him in a moment.

This episode showed that Joker, while more content to stay on the sidelines and screw with people, lives up to his reputation as Pierre's right hand man. Didn't even break a sweat fighting the whole team, and shrugged off their combo attack from last week like it was nothing. After 22 weeks exactly, the big bad clown himself is finally revived... and will likely be pushed back the debut of Princess Form next week. So what are they going to do for the second half of the series?

My commentary on Princess Form will come a little later than usual due to upcoming events next weekend, but I still look forward to it. The clown had it coming.

i think that the second half of the season will be about those miracle jewels joker talking about

Ok, I managed to see the new All Stars Movie and, what...did I just.. watch....

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I mean, the story doesn't make any sense, the animation has uneven quality (an understatement), the bit about the voice actors was known already and it's still bad, and.... what's the point of Cure Echo at all? She doesn't do a thing, the only thing that may be related is that she retains a decor at the end, so maybe (like the Rocket States from the Fourze / OOOs movie that appeared recently in Fourze) she'll appear later but still....
Even Smile Precure have little reason to appear there. In fact, most of Precure could be removed from this movie and nothing would have changed.
In short: avoid it. Even the abomination (for me) that was DX2 is much better.

So, we talking about the single greatest fight scene in the entire franchise? Movies included?

I've not been big on Smile myself. Overall, it's one of the worst PreCure series, right near the bottom with Suite and Max Heart. It has a terrible mascot and some of the worst slice-of-life, with muddling development and mishandled ideas. But one thing it excels at, in an ironic tie-in to its theme of storybooks, is the storybook beginning and ending. Smile started well, and if we count this as an 'ending', it sure did end with a dazzling light show.

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Something I never liked about earlier PreCure is how there wasn't much tension. Not with this episode. The Cures were obviously underpowered and compared to the midbosses and yet still prevailed.

Magnificent. 9/10 if only because the last 6 minutes were rushed and anti-climactic compared to the first 18.

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I wouldn't call the worst. Max Heart and Suite are much worse. Also despite liking the fight, there were some odd choices:

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I really can't buy that Joker, after overpowering all the five Cures, is defeated by just Reika...

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But she didn't do it alone, Pop helped her by blocking the surprise back attack which made an opening for Beauty to take advantage of, otherwise Beauty would've been K.O.ed on the spot, so my take was that Joker under-estimated the wild card which was Pop, most probably due to his size and shape shifting ability which is different to that of fighting the Precures. Also Beauty had always been the one to see the enemies' weakness and act accordingly, so I also see it as that her "levelling rate" in her fighting ability is really high - just look at her pulling that ice sword out of nowhere for example lol.

Plus the Beauty/Joker fight was the closest and most brutal so I thought the writers actually planned it out pretty well.

So... Did the Clown just die like that? What will they do with the later half of this show?

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Doubt it. As you can see that during the explosion the round core peeled off some skin revealing a spiky core within which just floated away instead of turning into dust so I would take that as a queue that we haven't seen the last of the Clown just yet.

Rather the clown (lame), I'm worried about the other 4. Don't tell me they are all gone?! They were great characters, so I really don't want these four to just disappear like this.
And the next episode has everyone turning into small animals... ( -_-)

Uuu............ Come back, you four...

PS: Fukuen-san, SUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

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